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George and Ira Gershwin will always be remembered as the songwriting team whose voice was synonymous with the sounds and style of the Jazz Age.

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Strike Up the Band

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For one night only, MasterVoices present a new adaptation of the satirical Gershwin musical comedy! Starring Shereen Ahmed (Joan Fletcher), Phillip Attmore (Tim Harper), Victoria Clark (Mrs. Draper), John Ellison Conlee (Horace J. Fletcher), Lissa deGuzman (Miss Meade), Claybourne Elder (G. Edgar Sloane), Christopher Fitzgerald (Spelvin), Bryce Pinkham (Jim Townsend), and David Pittu (Colonel Holmes)

Of Thee I Sing

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First test performance (in a concert staging) of the new critical edition, featuring University of Michigan faculty, performers from U-M's Musical Theater Program, and a Broadway scale orchestra!

Wilkins Conducts Rhapsody in Blue

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+ Catfish Row San Francisco Symphony Thomas Wilkins, conductor Michelle Cann, piano

An American Celebration

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Rhapsody in Blue Spokane Symphony Morihiko Nakahara, conductor Sara Davis Buechner, piano

Delishious – A Gershwin News Update #12

December 28, 2023

More news from the world of George and Ira Gershwin. The new West End production of Crazy for You is ending its well-received run at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London on December 31. Will…

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Delishious – A Gershwin News Update

June 26, 2023

More news from the world of George and Ira Gershwin. ♪♪♪♪♪ The cast of the rollicking West End revival of the award-winning Gershwin musical Crazy for You made a number of recent appearances in advance…

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Delishious – A Gershwin News Update

February 23, 2023

News from the world of George and Ira Gershwin. ♫♫♫♫♫ The rapturously received production of Crazy for You that was the hit of the 2022 Chichester Festival is coming to London’s West End this summer!…

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Delishious – A Gershwin News Update

June 27, 2022

Some news from the world of George and Ira Gershwin. ♪♪♪♪♪ Discover the life and music of George Gershwin in The Gershwin Project, an Australian radio program originally broadcast in 2008 and now available on…

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Delishious – A Gershwin News Update

February 28, 2022

A glimpse at news from the world of George and Ira Gershwin. On March 9, 2022, The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song will be awarded to singer/songwriter Lionel Richie at a gala…

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Delishious – A Gershwin News Update

October 25, 2021

More news from the world of George and Ira Gershwin. Hollywood is abuzz with the announcement of the impending production of Fascinating Rhythm, a movie to be co-produced by the legendary filmmaker Martin Scorsese (Raging…

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Delishious – A Gershwin News Update

December 30, 2020

News from the world of George and Ira Gershwin. The Library of Congress recently announced the digitization of the original bound, handwritten manuscript of George Gershwin’s two-piano score of the Rhapsody in Blue that the…

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Delishious – A Gershwin News Update

November 30, 2020

We’re all missing the experience of live performance and we hope to see you again soon with the joyous music and lyrics of George and Ira Gershwin. In the meantime, please check out these online…

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Upcoming Online Gershwin Offerings

August 31, 2020

The Metropolitan Opera’s acclaimed production of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess will be available to stream for two days over Labor Day weekend, September 4 and 5, 2020. Visit https://www.metopera.org/season/on-demand/opera/?upc=810004200944 for more details ***** And…

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Delishious — The Latest Gershwin

April 30, 2020

Some news from the world of George and Ira Gershwin. Until we can all safely return to our favorite theaters and concert stages, to hear once again in a live setting George’s concert works and…

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Delishious — The Latest Gershwin

February 29, 2020

Garth Brooks

News from the world of George and Ira Gershwin for the first two months of 2020: Singer and songwriter Garth Brooks (pictured) will receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at a…

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Delishious — The Latest Gershwin

December 31, 2019

Some highlights in the world of George and Ira Gershwin for the last month of 2019: Let ‘Em Eat Cake, the Gershwins’ sequel to the Pulitzer Prize-winning satirical comedy Of Thee I Sing, received a…

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Delishious — The Latest Gershwin

November 21, 2019

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s disc Transatlantic (Fanfare Cincinnati), which includes the first recording of the critical edition of George Gershwin’s An American in Paris, was just nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance….

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In Honor of George Gershwin’s 121st Birthday

September 26, 2019

The captivating new book Summertime: George Gershwin’s Life in Music (W. W. Norton; $39.95) is the culmination of nearly twenty years of research by Richard Crawford, Emeritus Professor of Musicology at the University of Michigan….

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Reflections on Dr. James Billington

November 29, 2018

On November 20, 2018, former Librarian of Congress Dr. James Billington passed away at a hospital in Washington, DC of complications from pneumonia. He was 89. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1929, Dr. Billington…

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An American in Paris on PBS!

October 30, 2018

PBS will air the “Live Capture” of the Tony Award-winning musical An American in Paris as part of its Broadway’s Best series this coming Friday, November 2. The film captures the London production of the…

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Gershwin Items At Auction in October

September 26, 2018

For anyone wishing to celebrate today’s 120th anniversary of George Gershwin’s birth with a purchase, Heritage Auctions has two fabulous items open for bids next month. On October 12, a highly-unusual Cecil Beaton photographic portrait…

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